Harry Reid Wants To Change Senate Rules

The Democrats have kept control of the Senate and Harry Reid is making it clear that he has no plans to reach across the aisle. He wants to change filibuster rules to completely marginalize Republicans.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster bills.

Speaking in the wake of Tuesday’s election, which boosted Senate Democrats’ numbers slightly, Mr. Reid said he won’t end filibusters altogether but that the rules need to change so that the minority party cannot use the legislative blocking tool as often.

“I think that the rules have been abused and that we’re going to work to change them,” he told reporters. “Were not going to do away with the filibuster but we’re going to make the Senate a more meaningful place.”

Republicans, who have 47 of the chamber’s 100 seats in this current Congress, have repeatedly used that strong minority to block parts of President Obama’s agenda on everything from added stimulus spending to his judicial picks.

If the situation were reversed and Mitch McConnell were now majority leader and Mitt Romney President, I would absolutely endorse the end of the filibuster.

Having said that, let the Democrats take the heat for this. When the 2014 backlash comes, just like 2010, as Obameecare has failed and we’re back into a deep recession, it will be the Democrats who are marginalized without a filibuster.